Grace - you bite me while breastfeeding once, shame on you. But you bite me some 25 times while feeding in the following weeks - shame on me! Sadly I think its time. We were down to just a few breastfeeds a day - formula for the rest - so I could leave home for meetings and work etc. But now not only are you biting me regularly, which faaaarking hurts, as of yesterday you decided to refuse the boob. It could be because you are teething again, sigh, but the bottom line is that as soon as I put you on you squirm and bite me. Hard. Ouch! Okay - I get the message. Sure, I could express until youre ready to come back, but Im not sure I have it in me, to be honest. I made it to almost 7 months, through several bouts of mastitis, cracked and bleeding nipples, one boob that shut down completely for a while there, and several days of rejecting my feeds around immunisations etc. Im proud that I made it this far as it certainly wasnt easy. Nope. Bloody challenging. But of course Im also sad that perhaps you have had your last breastfeed and I didnt know it was your last. I didnt take it in and treasure that last time. It just passed in a few hurried minutes. Its most likely you will be my last bubba. Which means that I wont ever experience that special feeding time again. I guess our time has passed. The next stage has begun. You are thriving. Youre crawling already and are determined to pull yourself and walk. God help me! There are so many milestones ahead. So much happiness. But for now, Im just going to shed a quiet little tear, and then Im going to try and follow the dont cry because its over, smile because it happened mantra. I was lucky to be able to feed you for those 7 precious months, and Im bloody lucky to be your Mumma. A x
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:41:19 +0000
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